#WOTY2024 winners, according to my first group of high school linguists:
Most likely to succeed: aura (see I told you guys)
Political WOTY: weird
Digital WOTY: brainrot
Informal WOTY: yap
Most creative: in da clerb, we all fam
Fun while it lasted: hawk tuah
Most useful: crash out
Most likely to succeed: aura (see I told you guys)
Political WOTY: weird
Digital WOTY: brainrot
Informal WOTY: yap
Most creative: in da clerb, we all fam
Fun while it lasted: hawk tuah
Most useful: crash out
January 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
#WOTY2024 winners, according to my first group of high school linguists:
Most likely to succeed: aura (see I told you guys)
Political WOTY: weird
Digital WOTY: brainrot
Informal WOTY: yap
Most creative: in da clerb, we all fam
Fun while it lasted: hawk tuah
Most useful: crash out
Most likely to succeed: aura (see I told you guys)
Political WOTY: weird
Digital WOTY: brainrot
Informal WOTY: yap
Most creative: in da clerb, we all fam
Fun while it lasted: hawk tuah
Most useful: crash out
November 15, 2024 at 9:32 AM
“Doomscrolling” is so limited. Today I have also doomedited, doomresearched my next story, and I’m about to doomeat a frozen doomburrito. You gotta be open to new doomexperiences.
November 7, 2024 at 12:22 AM
Here’s my early #WOTY2024 nomination for most creative: “the X I [nonce irregular past tense verb derived from X]”. Now seen on Reddit and Instagram. Interestingly, both have [ʌ].
February 8, 2024 at 5:31 AM
Here’s my early #WOTY2024 nomination for most creative: “the X I [nonce irregular past tense verb derived from X]”. Now seen on Reddit and Instagram. Interestingly, both have [ʌ].
• b e c a u s e • l a n g u a g e •
• episode 112 | woty 2024: the last word
• with dr. kelly wright
• becauselanguage.com/112-woty-202...
#langsky #linguistics #WotY2024
• episode 112 | woty 2024: the last word
• with dr. kelly wright
• becauselanguage.com/112-woty-202...
#langsky #linguistics #WotY2024
February 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
• b e c a u s e • l a n g u a g e •
• episode 112 | woty 2024: the last word
• with dr. kelly wright
• becauselanguage.com/112-woty-202...
#langsky #linguistics #WotY2024
• episode 112 | woty 2024: the last word
• with dr. kelly wright
• becauselanguage.com/112-woty-202...
#langsky #linguistics #WotY2024
January 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Coming back to my room from the #woty2024 nominations session at #ads2025, I stopped by the hotel and got a couple of slices of pizza at the hotel convenience store, not realizing that I needed to ask how big they were, because when I sat down to eat I found each "slice" was a quarter pizza.
January 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Pretty sure my vote for ADS #WotY2024 is going to be for "slop". (I'll be astonished if that isn't already on Ben's list for computing/technology/internet WotY, but I'll make sure to go to the nominating session just to be certain.)
December 31, 2024 at 3:06 AM
Pretty sure my vote for ADS #WotY2024 is going to be for "slop". (I'll be astonished if that isn't already on Ben's list for computing/technology/internet WotY, but I'll make sure to go to the nominating session just to be certain.)
Due to differences in calendrical systems, & in timelines for deciding "words of the year" at meetings which are held are in different years from the words they celebrate, organizations may adopt conflicting hashtags. For example, the #WotY2024 decision is being held at #LSA2025. In this essay, I wi
January 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Due to differences in calendrical systems, & in timelines for deciding "words of the year" at meetings which are held are in different years from the words they celebrate, organizations may adopt conflicting hashtags. For example, the #WotY2024 decision is being held at #LSA2025. In this essay, I wi
For those of you following along at home (including, um, me), the @americandialect.org has posted its nominations for Word of the Year 2024 in various categories:
americandialect.org/nominations-...
#woty2024 #woty2025 <-- not accurate but some people are using it
americandialect.org/nominations-...
#woty2024 #woty2025 <-- not accurate but some people are using it
Nominations for Words of the Year 2024 - American Dialect Society
Nominations for Words of the Year 2024 follow below. The final selection will be held at 6:45 pm EST on Friday, Jan. 10 (in Ballroom Salons E-F of the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown). American Dialect...
americandialect.org
January 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
For those of you following along at home (including, um, me), the @americandialect.org has posted its nominations for Word of the Year 2024 in various categories:
americandialect.org/nominations-...
#woty2024 #woty2025 <-- not accurate but some people are using it
americandialect.org/nominations-...
#woty2024 #woty2025 <-- not accurate but some people are using it
'Manifest' is Cambridge Dictionary's Word of the Year 2024 www.cambridge.org/news-and-ins... #woty2024 #language #dictionaries
November 20, 2024 at 12:13 PM
'Manifest' is Cambridge Dictionary's Word of the Year 2024 www.cambridge.org/news-and-ins... #woty2024 #language #dictionaries
Oh my days! It's begun! It's #WordOfTheYear time & the Collins Dictionary is fresh out of the gate with #Brat.
Read more: tinyurl.com/5n8v9xnm
#Langsky #Linguistics #WOTY #WOTY2024
Read more: tinyurl.com/5n8v9xnm
#Langsky #Linguistics #WOTY #WOTY2024
Charli xcx fans rejoice: ‘Brat’ chosen as Collins word of the year
A new definition of the word was sparked by the pop star’s summer album title, and made it a term that ‘resonated with people globally’, the dictionary says
tinyurl.com
November 8, 2024 at 10:05 AM
Oh my days! It's begun! It's #WordOfTheYear time & the Collins Dictionary is fresh out of the gate with #Brat.
Read more: tinyurl.com/5n8v9xnm
#Langsky #Linguistics #WOTY #WOTY2024
Read more: tinyurl.com/5n8v9xnm
#Langsky #Linguistics #WOTY #WOTY2024
"Rawdog" is the 2024 American Dialect Society word of the year. Read the full press release. #WOTY2024 #ADS2025 #LSA2025 americandialect.org/2024-word-of...
2024 Word of the Year Is “Rawdog” - American Dialect Society
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown–Jan. 10—The American Dialect Society, in its 35th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected rawdog as the Word of the Year for 2024. More than three hundred attendees took...
americandialect.org
January 11, 2025 at 5:21 AM
"Rawdog" is the 2024 American Dialect Society word of the year. Read the full press release. #WOTY2024 #ADS2025 #LSA2025 americandialect.org/2024-word-of...
Weird for #WOTY2024, I’m calling it now!
It is truly wild how simply calling these freaks 'weird' has proven such an instantaneous cheat code. Brains so cooked from years in fuckless online sadism chambers, they can't pretend to be normal for five seconds, even when their ability to do so is literally the topic at hand.
July 29, 2024 at 11:09 PM
Weird for #WOTY2024, I’m calling it now!
For Lang Change, Neil Hutchinson’s article in emag108 on WOTY2024, Brain Rot, Brat, Manifest or Demure? is a really good read. He looks at processes of change and links them to AO2 concepts - all good for Paper 2 essays.
May 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
For Lang Change, Neil Hutchinson’s article in emag108 on WOTY2024, Brain Rot, Brat, Manifest or Demure? is a really good read. He looks at processes of change and links them to AO2 concepts - all good for Paper 2 essays.
And Neil Hutchinson takes a look at WOTY2024 and its relevance to the Lang Change parts of the A Level.
April 2, 2025 at 7:08 AM
And Neil Hutchinson takes a look at WOTY2024 and its relevance to the Lang Change parts of the A Level.
Some positive (kind of) #WOTY2024 news...
BBC News - Word of the Year: Kindness wins children's 2024 vote - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Word of the Year: Kindness wins children's 2024 vote - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Word of the Year: Kindness wins children's 2024 vote
www.bbc.co.uk
January 23, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Some positive (kind of) #WOTY2024 news...
BBC News - Word of the Year: Kindness wins children's 2024 vote - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Word of the Year: Kindness wins children's 2024 vote - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The ultimate #WOTY2024 arbitrators have spoken. All other WOTYs can stand down until the end of 2025.
"Rawdog" is the 2024 American Dialect Society word of the year. Read the full press release. #WOTY2024 #ADS2025 #LSA2025 americandialect.org/2024-word-of...
2024 Word of the Year Is “Rawdog” - American Dialect Society
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown–Jan. 10—The American Dialect Society, in its 35th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected rawdog as the Word of the Year for 2024. More than three hundred attendees took...
americandialect.org
January 11, 2025 at 6:23 AM
The ultimate #WOTY2024 arbitrators have spoken. All other WOTYs can stand down until the end of 2025.
My piece for @bylinetimes.bsky.social about Oxford #WOTY2024 and 20 years of WOTY is out now: www.bylinesupplement.com/p/brain-rot-...
Brain Rot: What the Oxford Word of the Year Tells Us About 2024
Dan Clayton traces the remarkably prescient twenty year record of the Oxford Word of the Year award
www.bylinesupplement.com
December 2, 2024 at 2:46 PM
My piece for @bylinetimes.bsky.social about Oxford #WOTY2024 and 20 years of WOTY is out now: www.bylinesupplement.com/p/brain-rot-...